Non-volatile ferroelastic switching of the Verwey transition and resistivity of epitaxial Fe3O4 /PMN-PT (011)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Ming ^a   Hoffman, Jason ^a   Wang, Jing ^b   Zhang, Jinxing ^b   Nelson Cheeseman, Brittany ^a   Bhattacharya, Anand ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84878727562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01876     Document Type: Article

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